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#154007 01/17/06 02:42 PM
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phantom does not turn up in the reverse dictionary list. This list seems to contain just subsets of the category you are looking for, while you are looking for a superset.

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phantom does not turn up in the reverse dictionary list. This list seems to contain just subsets of the category you are looking for, while you are looking for a superset.




There are more matches of your pattern, but we can only show you the first 1000. Try a more restrictive pattern.

I haven't figured out how to get the reverse dictionary to limit itself to the complete phrase and avoid components (such as 'imaginary', in this case); the list thus contains concepts such as 'dialogism' (An imaginary speech..) and 'meridian' (an imaginary great circle..)

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What about phantomenagerie ?

#154010 01/18/06 03:55 PM
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What about phantomenagerie ?




I love it, Marianna!

#154011 01/18/06 04:47 PM
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Bugbears! bogeymen! gremlins!

Something in these lines?

#154012 01/18/06 05:04 PM
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There's "cryptofauna", but I think that only applies to sasquatches, yetis, nessie, and other things that people think might exist and not to fauns, satyrs, chimeras, manticores, pookas, ...

#154013 01/18/06 07:10 PM
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What about phantomenagerie ?




I love it, Marianna!




Me too

#154014 01/19/06 11:38 AM
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Well, I'm glad you like it!

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